Daily Reading List – November 26, 2025 (#674)

Another vacation day, with some beautiful weather here in San Diego. I also got a chance to work on a long-planned blog post. I’ll be taking off tomorrow for the US Thanksgiving holiday, but I’ll see you all back here on Friday.

[blog] Modular Monolith and Microservices: Data ownership, boundaries, consistency and synchronization. Much of the conversation I hear about microservices or monoliths focus on the components/services. This post puts the data front and center. Good take.

[blog] Configuration needs an API. Well-defined configurations are important, says Brian. This matters even more now with AI generated and interpreted schemas.

[article] Moats Before (Gross) Margins: Revisited. You could (as I did) reflexively think there are barely any moats nowadays, but this post reminded me that differentiated features alone don’t make a moat.

[blog] How to use NotebookLM: A practical guide with examples. I’d contend that NotebookLM is one of the top 3 AI products available anywhere. Great overview here.

[blog] Agent Design Is Still Hard. This rings true. But it’s easier now than twelve months ago, and will be easier twelve months from now. There’s a reconciliation of patterns and tools still to come.

[youtube-video] The Thinking Game | Full documentary | Tribeca Film Festival official selection. Super cool. This documentary into Demis Hassabis and Google DeepMind is now available online for free.

[blog] Customize Google Antigravity with rules and workflows. Each of these agentic tools has their own way of doing these sorts of things, but the productivity benefit is worth the investment.

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